Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2017 has been announced

The ‘Silence Breakers’, the individuals who came forward to open a conversation about sexual harassment, have been named Time's Person of the Year for 2017.

The movement, which was launched in the wake of sexual harassment allegations and charges against Harvey Weinstein and a number of other high-profile men in Hollywood, is credited with beginning "one of the highest-velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s".

The publication’s editor-in-chief, Edward Felsenthal, made the announcement on Wednesday morning’s TODAY show.

The cover features a composite which includes former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, actress Ashley Judd and singer Taylor Swift.